Tennessee coach Pat Summitt — the winningest coach in women’s basketball history — underwent surgery because she done tussled with one a them thar raccoons.

Summitt had offseason shoulder surgery, not for a sports injury but because of a tussle with a raccoon.

The winningest basketball coach in NCAA history had problems with her right shoulder after dislocating it while chasing a raccoon poised to attack her Labrador.

Let’s not give the raccoon too much credit here. Chasing a raccoon away is about as strenuous a task as looking for the remote control. But don’t ask her to do that, either. You’re just going to find her sprawled out on the floor with a broken hip, with the remote somehow jammed into her chest like a wooden stake. Again.

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How is the NAACP NOT picketing coach Summit? Not to mention the paper that reported this story?

Oh. RA-coons. Got it.

09.26.08 at 3:53 pm

Tony Homo

Student: “Coons are trying to get into the school.”

Forrest Gump: “Coons? When RA-coons get on the back porch, mama just switch em’ off with a broom.”

Student: “Not raccoons, you idiot. Niggers. And they wanna go to school with us.”

Forrest Gump: “With us? They do?”

09.26.08 at 4:06 pm

Angel Eyes Van Cleef (for now)

Those fans look pretty happy and/or insane. Well, Mr V does.

09.26.08 at 4:17 pm

Enrico Pallazzo

Bruce Pearl says, “I hope that’s not Shepherd’s Pie in my knickers.”

09.26.08 at 4:56 pm

Duh-Dale

You underestimate the power of the wild coon…they is some freaky-deaky agressive beasts that will not hesitate to rip your eyes out and eat ’em right there in front of your wife and kids. If I owned a pro team, I’d call ’em the “Crazy Coons”…imagine the helmet logo…